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[[Halloween Horror Nights]] is quite simply one of the largest annual Halloween events in the world. Hosted from the end of September to the end of October (occasionally extending to the first day or two of November), Halloween Horror Nights is hosted by [[Universal Studios]] theme parks in Orlando and Hollywood (including Singapore as of 2011) every year. While the Orlando event is the biggest, all three revolve are several key similarities: haunted houses (sometimes referred to as mazes, though they all have a predefined path), scarezones (sections of the park themed with props and effects and populated with actors), and shows (with [[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure|Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure]] being a perennial favorite). The houses and scarezones are populated with "scareactors", dressed in costumes and makeup and positioned to scare the bejeezus out of passerby.
While only the diehard fans usually know this, Halloween Horror Nights actually began in 1986 at Universal Hollywood; after a grisly accident where a scareactor was run over by a tram, Hollywood canceled the event. Universal would not revive their Halloween events until Orlando introduced Fright Nights in 1991, an event that lasted for one weekend in October and included one house, The Dungeon of Terror, and a large number of shows, musical acts, and street performers. Fright Nights was massively popular, with the house achieving wait times of over 2 hours, and the name was changed to Halloween Horror Nights in 1992. '92 also saw the introduction of the Bill & Ted show, which has continued every year since.
The event has only grown since then: in 2011, for Halloween Horror Nights 21, there
As a Universal Studios event, houses and scarezones based on movies are quite common, to the point where 2009 included 6 movie houses out of 8 total. Universal Hollywood often has almost exclusively film-based events beginning in 2006, and ''[[House of 1000 Corpses]]'' even got its start as a Hollywood house.
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The following is a partial list of film and television properties that have been adapted over the years; being owned by Universal Studios, the park has had access to many properties to turn into houses and scarezones. Some of these may not seem like traditional properties, but they can be quite effective....▼
* 1991: [[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein 1931]], [[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]], [[The Wolf Man]], [[The Mummy (film)|The Mummy]], [[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]▼
* 1992: [[The People Under the Stairs]]▼
* 1993: [[Psycho]]▼
* 1994: [[Psycho]]▼
* 1995: [[Tales from the Crypt]]▼
* 1996: [[Tales from the Crypt]]▼
* 1999: [[The Mummy Trilogy]], [[Psycho]]▼
* 2001: [[The Mummy Trilogy]]▼
* 2002: [[Fear Factor]], [[Marvel Comics]], [[Jurassic Park]]▼
* 2003: [[Halloween (film)|Halloween]], [[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]], [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]▼
* 2005: [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The Gentlemen]] (adapted into the Body Collectors)▼
* 2006: [[Scream (film)|Scream]], [[The Ring]], [[Hellraiser]], [[Silence of the Lambs]], [[Psycho]], [[The People Under the Stairs]]▼
* 2007: [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]], [[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]], [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]], [[Dead Silence]]▼
* 2008: [[Doomsday]], [[Event Horizon]] (in the form of a house heavily inspired by the property), [[The Wizard of Oz]], [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The Gentlemen]] (adapted into the Body Collectors), Bloody Mary▼
* 2009: [[Saw]], [[Child's Play (TV series)|Child's Play]], [[The Wolf Man|The Wolfman (2010)]], [[Dracula]], [[Frankenstein]], [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]], [[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]], [[The Strangers]], [[My Bloody Valentine (film)|My Bloody Valentine]], [[Shaun of the Dead]], [[The Phantom of the Opera]], [[Cirque Du Freak]], [[Drag Me to Hell]], [[Scarface]] ([[Crazy Awesome|Zombie Tony Montana!]])▼
* 2010: [[Hell House|
* 2011: [[The Thing (film)|The Thing (2011)]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]]▼
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: The 2010 event featured Psychoscarepy: Echoes of Shadybrook; the house was a 15-years-later finisher to the popular asylum house series, replacing the zany and loud antics of the inmates with somber, psychotic ghosts in an abandoned building.
* [[Abandoned Playground]]: The 2010 house The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes had an abandoned playground outside the burned-out orphanage, with the see-saw moving on its own.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Many icons, houses, scarezones, and event concepts have been scrapped over the years; infamous examples include Eddie, the chainsaw-wielding horror movie addict who was changed into Jack's brother, then dumped completely due to the 9/11 attacks, Cindy being replaced by The Caretaker after a rash of child kidnappings, and an almost-finished extreme house, Extreme Fear, in 2003 that was scrapped due to fear of litigation just before the event.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: A great many houses and scarezones over the years.
▲The following is a partial list of film and television properties that have been adapted over the years; being owned by Universal Studios, the park has had access to many properties to turn into houses and scarezones. Some of these may not seem like traditional properties, but they can be quite effective....
▲* 1991: [[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein 1931]], [[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]], [[The Wolf Man]], [[The Mummy (film)|The Mummy]], [[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]
▲* 1992: [[The People Under the Stairs]]
▲* 1993: [[Psycho]]
▲* 1994: [[Psycho]]
▲* 1995: [[Tales from the Crypt]]
▲* 1996: [[Tales from the Crypt]]
▲* 1999: [[The Mummy Trilogy]], [[Psycho]]
▲* 2001: [[The Mummy Trilogy]]
▲* 2002: [[Fear Factor]], [[Marvel Comics]], [[Jurassic Park]]
▲* 2003: [[Halloween (film)|Halloween]], [[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]], [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]
▲* 2005: [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The Gentlemen]] (adapted into the Body Collectors)
▲* 2006: [[Scream (film)|Scream]], [[The Ring]], [[Hellraiser]], [[Silence of the Lambs]], [[Psycho]], [[The People Under the Stairs]]
▲* 2007: [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]], [[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]], [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]], [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]], [[Dead Silence]]
▲* 2008: [[Doomsday]], [[Event Horizon]] (in the form of a house heavily inspired by the property), [[The Wizard of Oz]], [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|The Gentlemen]] (adapted into the Body Collectors), Bloody Mary
▲* 2009: [[Saw]], [[Child's Play (TV series)|Child's Play]], [[The Wolf Man|The Wolfman (2010)]], [[Dracula]], [[Frankenstein]], [[The Thing (film)|The Thing]], [[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]], [[The Strangers]], [[My Bloody Valentine (film)|My Bloody Valentine]], [[Shaun of the Dead]], [[The Phantom of the Opera]], [[Cirque Du Freak]], [[Drag Me to Hell]], [[Scarface]] ([[Crazy Awesome|Zombie Tony Montana!]])
▲* 2010: [[Hell House|TheLegendOfHellHouse]] (in the form of a house heavily inspired by the property), [[Classical Mythology]]
▲* 2011: [[The Thing (film)|The Thing (2011)]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
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